Welcome to another edition of This Week In The Nerd Fandom. Two weeks ago, we covered several of Anime Expo’s Biggest Announcements, with San Diego Comic-Con coming up on July 20th, here are this week’s biggest announcements.
City Hunter The Movie: Angel Dust Scores A Limited-Western Release
Starting the Week with news coming from the Scotland-based anime distributor, Anime Limited. Anime Limited is bringing the newest film based on Tsukasa Hojo’s City Hunter Manga Series out west! City Hunter The Movie: Angel Dust will have an extensive theatrical run in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and North America in 2024. Meanwhile, fans in Japan can see the new film on September 8th!
Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective TV Anime Picks Up The Clues for Two New Cast Members
The plot thickens in this new announcement from the newest TV Anime based on Akira Amano’s Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective just picked up two new cast members. Yoko Hikasa (Dr. Stone, K-ON!, High School DxD) will voice Amamiya, and Taku Yashiro (Tiger Mask W, The Galaxy Next Door, Pokemon Horizons) will voice Spitz Feier. The anime adaptation is set to premiere in October 2023.
SAG-AFTRA Joins Writers and Go On Strike!
Let’s see, there were the Disney Animation Production Workers, then the Writers Guild of America, and now SAG-Aftra has joined the Writers and went on strike! According to the Washington Post, nearly every TV or film actor in the country has joined 11,000 members of the Writers Guild of America who walked off set in early May, marking the first time Hollywood’s writers and actors have simultaneously withheld their work in 63 years. SAG-AFTRA and the actors affiliated with the organization are striking for better wages, wage increases that reflect the levels of inflation for the last two to three years and they are concerned by the increased rise of AI, as it poses a threat to creative professions. For a complete list of what has been affected, Mashable has further details.
Iman Vellani, Sabir Pirzada, Carlos Gómez, and Adam Gorham Are Ready To Bring Back Ms. Marvel in Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant!
What started as a tone-deaf cash crab, Marvel is ready to bring back Kamala Khan as a Mutant in a four-issue limited series (if this was on your Bingo Card, I owe you a steak dinner.) and it’s going to be co-written by Ms. Marvel herself, Iman Vellani. Joining her will be Sabir Pirzada (Writer), and Art by Carlos Gómez, and Adam Gorham. The cover Art will be by Sara Pichelli, and the Variant Cover will be by Stanley ArtGerm Lau. For an exclusive interview with the new creative team and an exclusive look at the new design by Jamie McKlevie, head over to Marvel for more details. Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant Issue One will be available on August 30th, and The Marvels will debut in theaters on November 10th.
DC Comics Brings Three New Manga Titles to DC Universe Infinite
It was announced earlier this year that DC would collaborate with Kodansha and introduce new titles based on DC’s Super-Heroes and Super-Villains. Now, DC has brought three new manga titles to their digital comic service, DC Universe Infinite. These collected editions of Joker: One Operation Joker, Superman vs. Meshi, and Batman: Justice Buster were also announced as available for all paid subscribers to the DC Universe Infinite (DCUI) digital subscription platform, in the form of weekly chapters; each DCUI chapter will be an excerpt from the corresponding print chapter for each title. For more information on this announcement, head over to DC Comics.
New Titles Liven Up The Circana Bookscan Chart For Graphic Novels In June 2023
The Newest Circana Bookscan Chart for June (5/28/23-7/1/23) is here and it’s quite a different scene, it was the fourth hardcover volume of Rachel Smythe’s Iconic webtoon series Lore Olympus that took the Number One spot. It also took the second spot on July’s New York Times Best Sellers List for Graphic Novels and Manga, but the soft cover portion took the fourth spot in Circana’s Bookscan Chart. A couple of other titles made the top five, Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Goodbye, Eri, Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball Super Vol. 18, and Yusuke Osawa’s Spider-Man: Fake Red. For a complete list of the Top Twenty Books, head over to ICv2 for further details.
SEGA OF AMERICA Workers Vote To Unionize, Becoming the Largest Multi-Department Union In The Gaming Industry
In April, the workers of SEGA OF AMERICA voted to become unionized. Now, in July, the results of that vote have been made public. With the help of AEGIS-CWA (Allied Employees Guild Improving Sega in partnership with the Communication Workers of America), the Sega of America union filed back in April, has won its union election, with 91 votes in favor of the union and 26 votes against it. With this victory, the AEGIS-CWA has become the largest multi-department union in the gaming industry. Game Informer reached out to SEGA OF AMERICA for comment. Their response is available at this link.
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